The MANTIS Database

MANTIS Brings You the World of Alternative Medicine

OVERVIEW

MANTIS addresses all areas of alternative medical literature. It has also become the largest index of peer reviewed articles for several disciplines including; chiropractic, osteopathy, homeopathy, and manual medicine.

CONTENT QUALITY

Alternative medicine that is reliable is critical to researchers and clinicians. Clinical practice today must be evidence-based and supported by the literature. For these reasons, the primary emphasis of MANTIS is the indexing of peer reviewed biomedical journals.

CONTENT FOCUS

MANTIS includes citations and abstracts from all alternative medicine disciplines. Each record contains a complete citation, the language of the abstract, the language of the article, and the headings and subheadings which describe the article. Approximately 70% of the references include abstracts.

FUTURE EMPHASIS

The content of MANTIS is dictated by our growing number of users. Currently, the priorities are to expand the information related to acupuncture and herbal medicine and at the same time increase the availability of full text documents. Subscribers have significant influence on the development of the MANTIS system. User suggestions are encouraged to improve content, specific journal inclusion, the indexing thesaurus and search engine features.

INDEXING

MANTIS uses standard Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). This includes the use of headings, subheadings, and check tags. Searches with “binding” of heading and subheading are also possible. In addition to the standard MeSH, a supplemental thesaurus has been developed that permits more precise indexing of alternative medical material.

SEARCH ENGINES

Searches through OVID, Dialog, and Datastar use their standard search methods. Searches through Health Index provide a variety of search options. The ADVANCED option allows users to create boolean arguments and conduct searches similar to conventional systems. Articles may be located by using title/abstract keywords, year, publication, author name, or by using MeSH headings/subheadings. Limiting retrievals by clinical relevancy, age group, study & sex group, or discipline can also be performed.

MANTIS Benefits

Here is a list of some of the many reasons why the MANTIS database is an important resource to students, physicians and other health care professionals:

CLINICAL COMPETENCY

The MANTIS database provides doctors throughout the world with vital information to aid in delivering quality patient education and care.

RESEARCH

All research begins with a review of existing studies. MANTIS eliminates the need of expending unnecessary resources (time and limited research dollars) attempting to find literature.

GUIDELINES / CONSENSES PROCESSES

These endeavors require all available information be gathered and brought to bear on the clinical issue being considered. (The Mercy and other practice guidelines as well as best practice reviews by CCGPP and others were developed with the use of MANTIS. For the Australians we generated hundreds of searches which were used as the foundation for their consensus processes and guidelines).

INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Searches are frequently asked for by the insurance industry. These searches are usually made to avoid payment for services rendered by physicians. Our search service helps to make sure all possible information is given to support treatment. There have been many instances where our information has prevailed in convincing an insurance carrier to pay for specific types of care (e.g. children, respiratory problems, upper extremity conditions, etc.).

MALPRACTICE

We have used MANTIS as well as other relevant databases to provide the vital information required to successfully defend numerous malpractice cases. These requests have come from doctors, attorneys, and malpractice carriers.

PATIENTS

The public is very interested in exploring alternative medicine. This has resulted in a growing number of requests from the public who we are able to provide information.

Current MANTIS Statistics

MANTIS is the Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System: The largest source of chiropractic, osteopathic and manual medical literature in the world.

Current Records: 416918

The following is a list of the most recently indexed journals that have been included in the MANTIS Database:

Notice: Not all information is available for each journal indexed by our staff. We will continue to update this file regularly when that information does become available. If you wish to submit a journal for indexing consideration or wish to add any information (with links when available) to these pages, please contact the editors at HealthIndex.

Topics in Integrative Health Care: an
International Journal (TIHC) is a
peer-reviewed, open-access online journal. It
is dedicated to advancing the integration of
multiple disciplines, both complementary and
mainstream, into diverse health care settings
in order to provide optimal patient care. It
presents themed issues on topics of current
relevance to health care providers interested
in integrative, conservative care, health
promotion and disease prevention. It includes
international, interdisciplinary Grand Rounds
in order to facilitate communication and
patient comanagement among various health
professions, for the good of patients everywhere.

Notice: Not all information is available for each journal indexed by our staff. We will continue to update this file regularly when that information does become available. If you wish to submit a journal for indexing consideration or wish to add any information (with links when available) to these pages, please contact the editors at HealthIndex.

The Asian Journal of Sports Medicine (AsJSM)
is an international peer review medical
journal, that presenting the worldwide new
research on Sports Medicine especially in
Asian countries. This journal is published
quarterly by Tehran University of Medical
Sciences, Sports Medicine Research Center in
English. The purpose of AsJSM is to increase
knowledge, to stimulate research in all
fields of Sports and exercise medicine and to
promote health and better life. To achieve
this goal, the journal publishes basic,
biomedical and clinical research on all
topics of sports medicine especially medical
aspects on worldwide sports and endemic
sports in Asian countries. The acceptance
criteria for all papers are the quality and
originality of the research and its
significance to our readership.

Notice: Not all information is available for each journal indexed by our staff. We will continue to update this file regularly when that information does become available. If you wish to submit a journal for indexing consideration or wish to add any information (with links when available) to these pages, please contact the editors at HealthIndex.

JPMFH will publish contributions germane to
the chiropractic concepts of health wellness,
vertebral subluxation and the myriad
variables that interconnect these constructs
as they relate to children, mothering and
family health. Articles dealing with the
anatomical, physiological, biomechanical,
philosophical, clinical, epidemiological,
legal, theoretical, administrative,
technical, and practice realms of pediatric,
maternal and family health; which relate to a
progressive model of the chiropractic
lifestyle, are within the domain of its
publication interests.
All levels of research, from double blind
randomized clinical trials to case studies,
pilot studies, anecdotal and observational
reports will be considered for publication.
Selected information regarding conferences,
seminars, and other colloquia promoting or
enhancing understanding of health, wellness
and vertebral subluxation as related to
women, children and familes will be published.
JPMFH will also print book reviews,
commentaries, brief communications, research
in progress, and letters to the editor. JPMFH
will serve as a limited source of
advertising, promoting items or information
which contribute to health, wellness and
subluxation-related chiropractic. This will
include, but not be limited to, products,
instruments, academic positions, and practice
opportunities. It is intended that JPMFH will
serve as a medium through which new
information will increase the overall
understanding and appreciation of the role of
the chiropractic lifestyle in achieving
health and wellness in this special population.
It is a publication usable by chiropractors
and other health care providers for patient
education, personal edification, improvement
of methods for chiropractic management, and a
source of publication for case studies and
other practice-related information. As a
cross-disciplinary journal with international
distribution, submissions are encouraged from
all health care and science arenas as well as
other areas including; the legal profession,
governmental agencies, and educational and
quality of life programs from the United
States and abroad.

Notice: Not all information is available for each journal indexed by our staff. We will continue to update this file regularly when that information does become available. If you wish to submit a journal for indexing consideration or wish to add any information (with links when available) to these pages, please contact the editors at HealthIndex.

Indian Journal of Natural Products and
Resources (IJNPR), a quarterly journal, is
dedicated to the exploration of topics that
confront both educators, frontline workers in
the fields, entrepreneurs and ultimate users
of the value added products and their
resources pertaining to both plants and
animals. It publishes original research
papers, reviews and short communications. The
scope of the journal is multidisciplinary
especially of applied nature. Papers on plant
cultivation, fishery, apiary, poultry, dairy,
disease and pest control measures,
postharvest technology/practices, value added
products and utilization of plants and
animals in broader sense (including
ethnobotany and pharmacology) are considered
for publication.
IJNPR was formerly known as Natural Products
Radiance (NPR), a bimonthly journal started
in 2002. Accordingly, Volume 1 to Volume 8
(2002 to 2009) have been brought out under
the name Natural Product Radiance . Over the
years the contents of NPR have been
diversified in response to contributors. So
to make its name be responsive, we made
efforts to rename it and obtained new name,
Indian Journal of Natural Products and
Resources (IJNPR) from Registrar Newspaper
India (RNI). However, as per their
instructions new name shall start from Vol.
1. It will now include more number of papers
in each issue. The former title continued to
imply a more limited scope but the name
change signals an updating of old title to
reflect this journal's scope and contents.
Considering the interest of our esteemed
users/readers in categorized information on
varied natural products and resources,
NISCAIR launched a quarterly online open
access repository entitled, NATURAL PRODUCT
AND RESOURCES REPOSITORY (NPARR) , from Jan
2010. Abstracts of papers along with citation
and address of corresponding authors will be
provided after collection and collation from
various core and non-core journals.

Notice: Not all information is available for each journal indexed by our staff. We will continue to update this file regularly when that information does become available. If you wish to submit a journal for indexing consideration or wish to add any information (with links when available) to these pages, please contact the editors at HealthIndex.

For a complete list of journals indexed in the MANTIS Database, please click here.

Why Use MANTIS?

"Our study shows that a specialized database such as MANTIS does offer unique resources that are not typically indexed by commonly used databases (eg. PubMed). As health care institutions and providers are increasing their services in the areas of CAM to meet public demands, an ever-growing number of subject-specific bibliographic databases are becoming available within the field of CAM. Libraries and research centers must find funding to increase access to specialized databases for CAM if institutional priorities focus on this growing area of medicine.

In a literature search for complementary and alternative medicine material, "The highest sensitivity (58%) and precision (83%) were obtained through MANTIS, since MANTIS specializes in osteopathic medicine, allopathic medicine, chiropractic, and physical therapy, which is the focus area of our systematic review."

Both from End-user searching on MANTIS: The Northwestern Experience. By Cheryl M. Duggan and M.R. Hanson., Journal of Chiropractic Education. June 1997 Vol. 11(1) Pgs. 27-31."

"The results of this study show that a field doctor's search using the MANTIS (formerly Chirolars) database is likely to be the faster and more complete than a search of the manual databases or a non-chiropractic computerized database."

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